There is General Honore, the man who gave us the perfect phrase during the tumult of Katrina. "Stuck on stupid." :)
He described everything wrong in NOLA with those three words :)
-- and, since the MSM is STILL stuck on stupid (ALL THIS WEEK, it seems), it might be helpful for us all to fight back. One idea is to send emails like copies of this page (see item #34 on it) to your entire address book, IMHO. Many recipients pass them along themselves and even keep the emails on their computers for future reference.